{"id":216893550,"date":"2011-11-25T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893550"},"modified":"2011-11-25T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:59:36","slug":"desparately-seeking-samaritans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893550","title":{"rendered":"Desparately seeking Samaritans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just\u00a0heard this story on Rhema news and was disappointed by\u00a0its timeless\u00a0similarity to Luke&#8217;s story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+10:30&amp;version=NLT\" target=\"_blank\">the Good Samaritan<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/6027771\/Sobbing-Down-syndrome-man-ignored-after-attack\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not an easy life for a person with an intellectual handicap, particularly if they aren&#8217;t severely handicapped, because they realise what is going on, and they realise they are different.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not easy being a parent or having a sibling that&#8217;s intellectually handicapped, because of these incidents that are happening. [&#8230;] And what were these people who walked past him thinking? What sort of person would walk past someone sobbing on the street?&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many with intellectual disabilities do realise what is going on and do realise they are different.\u00a0 Is it their lot to spend their lives dealing with a society seemingly incapable\u00a0of bridging the gap and simply meeting them where they are?\u00a0 Surely we are better than that?<\/p>\n<p>Sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just\u00a0heard this story on Rhema news and was disappointed by\u00a0its timeless\u00a0similarity to Luke&#8217;s story of the Good Samaritan.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s not an easy life for a person with an intellectual handicap, particularly if they aren&#8217;t severely handicapped, because they realise what is going on, and they realise they are different.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not easy being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,259,25],"tags":[591,593,592,594],"class_list":["post-216893550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-family-friends","category-life","tag-bullying","tag-downs-syndrome","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-rhema"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893552,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893550\/revisions\/216893552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}